HUSBAND AND WIFE

Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 3

HUSBAND AND WIFE

UNITED IN LIFE AND DEATH POIGNANT COINCIDENCE A poignant coincidence of the close of the lives of husband and wife within a few brief hours on the same day lies behind two simple announcements published under the title “ Deaths ” in the Timaru ‘ Post 1 on Friday afternooin The notifications recorded the passing of two well-known residents of Pleasant Point for many years, Alfred Charles Le Sueur (aged 81) and his wife, Eliza Cook Le Sueur (aged 70), who, even as they were happy in their long married life together, were in death not divided, for these two elderly people both passed from this life in the wards of the Timaru Hospital within six hours of one another. The husband, suffering from the effects of his age, entered the hospital a fortnight ago, and on Sunday last his wife, who had nursed and ministered to him before he left home to go into the institution, joined him there for the last time. She suffered a stroke, and when another seizure overtook her in hospital on Tuesday she sank into unconsciousness, from which she never recovered. Until Thursday morning members of the family expected their mother to go first, but the father slipped away peacefully about 6.30 a.m., and just on midday tho wife also passed on Mr H. Le Sueur, of Dunedin, is a sou of the deceasedi